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of common sheep, but the attempt utterly failed. We cannot 
do better than close the account of this animal with the fol- 
lowing observations from the pen of Frank Forrester, who is 
about the only writer that has handled the several animals 
peculiar to the Rocky Mountains. He says : — 
“ I conceive that this animal is rarely an object of particular 
systematic pursuit; and that when killed at all, it is almost 
by accident, during the winter season. While among the 
herbless crags and awful precipices of those dread mountain 
solitudes, it is not easy to see it ; and when seen, to outclimb 
and circumvent it, must require that the hunter should be 
every inch a man. If possible, stalk it having the sun on 
your back, and in his eyes ; or, approach it from the upper to 
the lower ground ; for, as it is its nature to keep the upper 
ground if possible, it consequently keeps the brightest look- 
out for an enemy’s approach from below ; but all depends 
on the direction of the wind, down which it is impossible to 
approach it.” 
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